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Using the Storage Page
From the Storage page, you can accomplish the following tasks:
• Create an Array
• Delete an Array
• Rebuild an Array
• Synchronize an Array
• Designate a Spare Disk
• Remove a Spare
• M igrate an Array
• View Storage Information
Create an Array
This option is available only if there are free disks that are RAID-enabled.
Click Create array to start the Create Array W izard and then follow the instructions.
You can press F1 to access the online help that walks you through the W izard with
step-by-step instructions.
Delete an Array
This option is available only if RAID arrays have been created.
Click Delete array to start the Delete Array W izard and then follow instructions.
You can press F1 to access the online help that walks you through the W izard with
step-by-step instructions.
Rebuild an Array
About Rebuilding
Rebuilding is the process of restoring data to a hard drive from other drives in the
array. For example, if you have a three disk RAID 5 array and one of the drives fails,
you will need to replace the failed drive with a new one, and rebuild the array to re-
generate the lost data on the newly added drive.
Rebuilding applies only to fault-tolerant arrays such as RAID 1, RAID 0+1, or RAID 5
Arrays .
Instructions
Click Rebuild array to start the Rebuild Create Array W izard and then follow the
instructions.
You can press F1 to access the online help that walks you through the W izard with
step-by-step instructions.
The rebuilding process takes some time to complete, and occurs in the background
so as not to affect the performance of the system.
Synchronize an Array
Synchronizing an array will force a rebuild of redundancy or parity. The operation
applies to any fault-tolerant array such as RAID 1, 0+1 and RAID 5.
Click Synchronize array to start the Synchronize Array W izard and then follow
instructions.
You can press F1 to access the online help that walks you through the W izard with
step-by-step instructions.
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